Quality, regulatory, clinical and manufacturing talent for businesses that answer to a regulator. Every consultant here works one market and nothing else.
Specialisms.
Eight desks, each owned by consultants who only cover that discipline.
Quality Assurance
QA, QC, validation and compliance, from technician to Head of Quality.
Regulatory Affairs
Submissions, labelling and post-market surveillance across EU and US routes.
Clinical Operations
Trial management, monitoring and data, sponsor side and CRO.
Medical Devices
Design assurance, R&D and MDR-driven hiring across class II and III.
Manufacturing & Supply
Process, packaging and supply chain for GMP sites and scale-ups.
Medical Affairs
MSLs, medical advisors and pharmacovigilance, permanent and interim.
Biotech & Research
Discovery, bioprocessing and CMC for venture-backed businesses.
Commercial
Market access, HEOR and specialist sales leadership.
Why regulated hiring is different.
A wrong hire in quality or regulatory does not just cost you a salary. It can cost you a submission date.
Our consultants know which standards a candidate has genuinely worked to, which audits they have sat in, and whether their experience transfers between a device and a drug. That is a conversation a generalist recruiter cannot have.
It also means we can tell you when a brief is not fillable as written, and what to change, before you spend three months finding out.
How we can work together.
The four group solutions, run by Life Sciences consultants.
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Contingent Contract
Proven contract talent, fast, when the project cannot wait, without compromising on quality.
No fee until placement
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Contingent Permanent
Move quickly, hire permanently, and stay focused on long-term success.
Success fee on start
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Multi-Hire
Build high-performing teams at scale, as one campaign, not five separate briefs.
Campaign rate
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Retained Search
When the hire must be right, search the whole market, not just the part that is looking.
Staged retainer
Latest roles.
Live briefs, every one with a named consultant behind it.
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Case study
Staffing a quality function against a submission date.
A device manufacturer moving to EU MDR needed eleven quality and regulatory hires before its notified body audit, in a market where everyone was hiring for the same reason.
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The constraint
A fixed audit date, eleven seats, and a candidate pool being approached by every competitor.
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What we ran
One multi-hire campaign with a single point of contact, contract cover bridging the permanent hires.
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The outcome
All eleven seats filled before the audit, with two contractors converting to permanent.
“They understood the audit calendar better than some of our own suppliers”
Director of QualityMedical Devices
The people you will deal with.
Desk leads for each specialism, not an account manager in between.
Adam Bates
Director of Technology & Operations
Global Board, Leadership
Jacob Knight
Head of Energy
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Joe Wood-Lowe
Head of Construction
X4 Engineering
Gary Hargreaves
Head of Infrastructure/MSPs
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Talk to the group
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Tell us what you need, a specialist consultant replies the same working day.


